- Work with Design Directorate and Senior Designers to understand the brief, brand guidelines, technical constraints for the project and aiding them guide junior team members.
- Challenge the brief, delivering the expected and the unexpected in your response
- Effectively manage your time, collaborating with Resource Managers
- Be a team player. Keeping the channels of communication open between Design, Client Service, Strategy and Operations teams, seeking guidance when things change
- Add value to internal design reviews, offering fresh perspective, giving feedback to executional consistency, art direction of photography.
- Pro-actively assist the team, contributing to studio inspiration and design events.
- 2-5 years experience within a branding, packaging, and corporate identity role
- Understanding of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands and the world they inhabit
- Emerging coaching and mentoring skills
- A degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Illustration or related field
- Ability to confidently and clearly articulate your thinking
- Know when a sketch is more persuasive than a mac visual
- Ability to multi-tasking and excellent time management skills
- Excellence in Adobe CC, (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Keynote
- 25 days holiday per annum + additional 'Me Day'
- Flexible working during summer hours
- Pension Scheme
- Voluntary SGS Europe Group Healthcare Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Healthcare Digital GP Service
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme
- City Bike Scheme (London only)
- Employee referral program
Middleweight Designer - London, United Kingdom - Marks, part of SGS & Co
Description
Marks is a global brand design and experience agency, uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change. We enable our household name clients to get there first and best - empowering acceleration on a global scale. From vision-building to detailed execution, we enable brands to move faster and shift impact.
We are currently seeking a Middleweight Designer to join our talented team based in London. In this role, you will translate brand needs into distinctive visual outcomes - designing, crafting and implementing the brand experience across all touch points, through intelligently applied insight, compelling concepts, confident creativity and consistent activation.
As a valuable player in the design team, you will have opportunity to build your expertise across brand design, typography, illustration, photography, finishes and print processes.
This is an outstanding opportunity for a Designer with around 2 years minimum experience in a similar role within packaging, branding, design, comms or media. The successful candidate with have opportunity to work alongside a talented team in an expanding agency with a great working culture
In addition, you will have opportunity to develop your portfolio across a wide range of global brands and projects, therefore if you are a talented and ambitious Junior Designer looking to make that next step into a Middleweight role, we would also love to hear from you.
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You will enjoy an excellent base salary, along with the other benefits of working for Marks including: